The welfare effects of fuel conservation policies in a dual-fuel car market: Evidence from India
Randy Chugh, and Maureen Cropper
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
244-261
2017
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Abstract
We estimate a model of vehicle choice and kilometers driven to analyze the long-run impacts of fuel conservation policies in the Indian car market. We simulate the effects of petrol and diesel fuel taxes and a diesel car tax, taking into account their interactions with the pre-existing petrol fuel tax and car sales taxes. At levels sufficient to reduce total fuel consumption by 7%, the increased diesel and petrol fuel taxes both yield deadweight losses (net of externalities) of about 4 (2010) Rs./L.